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Brad Nugent, Assistant Commissioner of the Department of Tourism greets the
participants of the 1st Leave A Footprint Cruise Run in
Frederiksted on Monday Feb. 21, 2011
Local road runners joined a group of runners representing “The Leave A Footprint Foundation” took advantage of that which the town of Frederiksted offered as an histories and idealistic 5K run course Monday morning for the first Leave A Footprint 5K Road Race. Hosted by the Virgin Islands Department of Tourism, some 50 runners toed the start line on King St. at Fort Frederik Museum and headed north along the shore and east on Mahogany Road into the rainforest and back to the finish line at The Ann Abrahamson Pier.
Runners in the St. Croix rain forest on Mahogany Road.
In the early going, Tyler Jowasis, of St.
Croix, fresh off his victory in last week’s 25th Annual
Toast-To-The Captain 8.4 Mile Road Race, took the lead as he was shadowed by
Billy Bohlke, Keller Head, Ivan Espinosa and Theresa Harper. Shortly after
the turn-around, close to a mile and a half out, Bohlke made his move to the
lead to finish first with a time a bit slower than usual of 18:55; Tyler
Jowasis held on to second in 19:53; Keller Head was third in 21:01;
Jokingly, visiting runners and those not familiar with the course were instructed to follow Theresa Harper during the race and they would find their way back to Frederiksted and the promenade on the waterfront to the finish line at Ann Abrahamson Pier. Perhaps not by choice, that’s exactly what 46 of the 50 runners did. Harper was in the lead group at the start and maintained her lead female position throughout the race to take first place for females with a time of 21:52.
Notes: Participants in the race included a Stroller category with a parent pushing a child; Leave a Footprint participants have a special event whereby the runner who comes closest to predicting the combined time for all the five island events they run or walk wins and a walkers category.
The race is the first of what is hoped to lead to more for St. Crioix joining St. Thomas and the successful Cruise Run which is now in its sixth year. The Leave A Footprint Foundation approached The Virgin Islands Department of Tourism requesting assistance with staging an event in St. Croix on its first visit to St. Croix. The Virgin Islands Pace Runners is the organizer for the event. V.I.Pace Runners assisted STAR in St. Thomas with the organizing of the first Cruise Run.
The top three male and female finishers received a glass trophy designed by Jan Mitchell; all participants received a special V.I.Pace Runners certificate and a V.I. gift bag from The Virgin Islands Department of Tourism; the first three local male and female finishers received a Leave A Footprint tee-shirt.
Billy Bohlke, St. Croix 1st
Place
The Finisher Male:
1.Billly Bohlke, St. Croix 18:55; 2. Tyler Jowasis, St. Croix 19:53; 3. Keller Hood , St. Croix 21:01; 4. Scott Fricks, St. Croix 22:27 5. T.J. Vandehey, St. Croix 24:47; 6. Simon Taylor, Oakville, Ontario, Canada 24:50; 7. Ivan Espinosa, St. Croix 26:36; 8. Jamie Harris, London, Ontario, Canada 29:41; 9. Michael Harriman, St. Croix 31:22; 10. Stephen Wasner, St. Croix 31:22; 11. Ron Locker, St. Croix 43:18; 12. Paul Evora (Stroller), St. Croix 51:51; 13. Rex Lauterback, Canada 54:56; 14. Charles Merriman, Keithville, Louisiana 55:02; 15. 55:10
Theresa Harper 1st
Place Female finisher
The Finisher Female:
1.Theresa Harper, St. Croix 21:52; 2.
Heidi Snow, St. Croix 23:30; 3. Dulcie Crowther, St. Croix 23:34; 4. Rita
Farias, London, Ontario, Canada 23:46; 5. Julie Sommer, (Stroller) St. Croix
23:53; 6. Elizabeth Nurnberger, (Stroller) St. Croix 27:34; 7. Chelsey
Harris, St. Croix 27:41; 8. Laura Hood, St. Croix 27:52; 9. Grnevieve
Keller-Milliken, St. Croix 28:20; 10. Leah Chewning, St. Croix 29:50; 11.
Lillian Mallory, 30:41; 12. Julie Eckard, (Stroller) St. Croix 32:33; 13.
Joyia Jones, St. Croix 32:33; 14. Maeve-Armstrong Harris, London, Ontario,
Canada 32:34; 15. Kristen Page, Oakville, Ontario, Canada 32:34; 16.
Charlotte Bodurow, St. Croix 33:55; 17. Diane Lauterbach, Crete, Nebraska
34:44; 18. Michelle Dizon, St. Croix 34:45; 19. Cynthia Whitehurst, St.
Croix 35:41; 20. Linda Nelson, St. Croix 35:42; 21. Margaret Ferreras, St.
Croix 35:43; 22. Kaitlyn Murphy, St. Croix 36:11; 23. Carol Murphy, St.
Croix 36:16; 24. Angela Klein, St. Croix 36:55; 25. Nancy Mitrick, 41:31;
26. Giselle Evora, St. Croix 42:11; 27. Allison Greenshaw, (Stroller) St.
Croix 42:45; 28. Jenneth Merriman, Keithville, Louisana 42:51; 29. Hayley
Loecker, St. Croix 43:18; 30. Henna Galiber, St.Croix 45:59; 31. Miguelina
Ojeda, St. Croix 46:01; 32. Laurie Bohlke, (Stroller) St. Croix 46:03; 33.
Lindsey Wagner, St. Croix 54:41; 34. No Name 51:27; 35. No Name 52:03
The next event on the V.I.Pace
Runners Calendar is the Queen Mary Highway/UVI 5K on March 18 followed by
the Flight #64 4Mile on March 20For
information contact The Virgin Islands Pace Runners 340-643-2557 logon to:
http//virginislandspace.org email:
wallacewilliams@msn.com